CVE-2026-44941libzypp path traversal via "keyhint" in repomd.xml

Description

A relative path traversal in the "keyhint" option in repomd.xml parsing of libzypp before 17.38.12 can be used by attackers able to supply a malicious repository to inject or overwrite files in the target system as root.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426 issue-trackingExploitThird Party Advisory
• https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04 patchPatch